Saw this on FOX News.. I was noticing how everyone kept talking about getting the Latino vote when there were more Black votes than Latinos. When Laura finally mentioned about getting the black vote, Former Dem, turned Republican states (in the last minute of the video) that black people are "off limits" to the Right wing.

Florida found 1,000 uncounted ballots in a warehouse in Broward county.

Obama's margin was well greater than that and Broward went overwhelmingly for Obama anyway but, c'mon you guys...

Thank goodness they don't use voting machines, then we'd have to worry about fraud. :)

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Yeah, yeah smart guy. Be even better if the voter put the paper ballot directly into the reader so it was immediately counted and also left a paper trail in case confirmation was required.

I've no clue how Florida does it but, at this point, I imagine it involves a dart board and wren entrails.

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The supervisor of elections, Dr. Brenda Snipes, said this happens all the time, especially when dealing with paper ballots. [...] Snipes said there is no reason for alarm. "I've run several elections here, and this election was run no different than any other," she said.

"I've run several elections here, and this election was run no different than any other," she said.

Maybe she shouldn't run elections, then?

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"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin

It's funny that Republicans are decrying the buying of Democratic votes with handouts, when their biggest selling point was that you'd get cold hard cash in the form of something like $2,000* in reduced taxes.

After the election, during the usual post-mortem, the GOP pundits all said "why would we listen to Democrats? They don't want us to win!"

Well, the reason we can tell you honestly what you're doing wrong is because we know you'll be saying minorities just want "Santa Claus" and are easily bribed with "gifts" and saying you only lost because of Hurricane Sandy or liberal media or skewed polls or whatever anyway. It's not as though there's a real risk that the GOP will actually listen or change.

Plus, if the GOP actually took the advice and changed their core positions, it pushes the "center" further and further to the left. Which is pretty much what has happened anyway in terms of social policy for the past 200 years - the gradual progress of social progressivism - but it doesn't hurt to nudge it faster.

All voters want "stuff," Republicans as well as Democrats. If anything, Republican voters have been more successful at obtaining "stuff" than Democrats: Medicare is more generous than Medicaid, farm programs deliver better returns than means-tested programs.

The Romney-Ryan ticket did not stint on the stuff-offering itself: it promised Republican voters that all the cost of deficit reduction would be dumped on Democratic voters - voters under 55 - with Republicans gaining the additional benefit of a 20% cut in tax rates.

But Mitt Romney was very wrong to see 2012 as a referendum on "stuff." It was a referendum on the question, which candidate would do a better job promoting prosperity and creating jobs. That was the referendum that Romney and the Republican party lost. We lost both because voters did not believe in the job-creating magic of upper-income tax cuts - and because voters were unpersuaded that the GOP even cared that much about job creation, as opposed to wealth preservation.

John Avlon wrote:

A final point: President Obama backing the DREAM Act or contraception coverage is not a nakedly political gesture, it is a matter of policy difference. Addressing the needs and desires of people is not a bribe or a government gift to be exchanged for a vote. It is part of the purpose of representative government as conservative forefather Edmund Burke himself once envisioned: “Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.”

Romney’s distance from this perspective about government shows how far the conservative conversation has drifted from original principles. His impulse to rationalize defeat as victory for liberal special-interest bribery shows again that it is probably best for the country that he was not elected president this November.

- My insurance to not be allowed to deny me coverage because I slipped on a rug and busted up my knee cap last year - My insurance, which I already pay out the nose for, to go ahead and treat my oral contraceptive as a drug preventing anemia (main reason I take it) rather than as some sort of elective cosmetic surgery\ - My employer to at least consider offering healthcare as part of a benefits package, rather than leaving me on my own. (Even better would be cutting the employer out of the equation entirely and just having the government handle it, like the rest of the civilized planet) - Modern day immigrants to get the same fair shake at establishing roots here in the US that my ancestors did 100 years ago. (Back then, you signed your name at Ellis Island, pledged your allegiance, and moved out West. And that was that.) - Adequate funding for school systems - Properly built and maintained roads

So, if by "stuff" they mean basic human rights one ought to expect in the "greatest nation on Earth" as well as normal government services that are handled unquestioningly by every other first world country in the world, then yeah, you're **** right I want stuff!

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